help on scripting bounce pads inspired by a quake mod

[naturd93]

Recently I played a quake mod called remobilized. It uses these bounce pads that bounce you back up to the height you jumped from. I've tried to use acs scripting to put something like this in my maps, but I can't get anything I try to work. How could I get what I'm trying to do to work?

[Player701]

Haven't played the Quake mod, but the easiest option to create a bounce pad is to use a sector action in combination with ThrustThingZ. Here's an example map:

bounce_pad.wad

You can also call ThrustThingZ from an ACS script and do something else there (e.g. play a sound effect).

[axredneck]

Also afaik "Hunter's Moon" wad has many features from Quake 3.

[naturd93]

yeah but to make the bounce pads like the ones in the mod, you have to get bounced back up accordingly to the height you were previously at. Like if I fell from a 256 unit heigh ledge, it would bounce me back up to that specific ledge. but if I fell from a 128 unit heigh ledge, it bounces me up to there. I'll send a video of gameplay to explain it better.

[naturd93]

https://youtu.be/0DvZ-Tnz4sQ

[Player701]

you have to get bounced back up accordingly to the height you were previously at

I see. Then you need to use a script to store either the height the player last fell from, or, better yet, the thrust force to apply when they touch the floor and bounce. Here is a proof of concept using the latter method. The first script runs when the player walks over any of the four ledges - it stores the received argument value (the force) in a map variable. The second script, triggered when walking over the bounce pad, reads the stored value from the variable to apply the thrust force.

[naturd93]

thanks for the help. never knew it had to do with the player count. I originally make a script where it gets the player's height distance from the floor and used that as the thrust. But when I used that script it did nothing when I hit the bounce pad

[Player701]

thanks for the help. never knew it had to do with the player count.

The player count is there to ensure multiplayer support. If you don't want it, you can remove all PlayerNumber() indexing and replace the array with a scalar variable. I try to always consider multiplayer when possible, though.

I originally make a script where it gets the player's height distance from the floor and used that as the thrust. But when I used that script it did nothing when I hit the bounce pad

Not that simple, unfortunately. First, the player needs to be in the air at the time you read the distance. And while the thrust force does of course correlate with it, the dependency seems to be non-linear and definitely not 1:1. In the example map, I had to adjust the force for each ledge manually after some experimentation.